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lonrnal & IHfssrngcr.
J. KNOWLES and S. BOSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
~ 11, ( cbargt of AbllilonUm.
Tbr L* not b*a a Presidential election for
the last twenty-fire years In which the charge of
abolitionism lie* not been brought by the Democ
racy against the candidate of the Opposition, it
mattered not whether that candidate was a North
ern or a Southern man, Abolitionist ! was the
instant and amultaneoas outcry of the Democratic
press. Is it not extraordinary that the Whigs of
the South who, ss a general rule, constitute the
greet mass of large alaveholders, should never yet
have introduced the slavery subject into politics ;
never denounced ibe Democratic nominee as an
Abolitionist, but hate always stood on the defen
sive, contenting themselves with disproving the
charge, and establishing the national character of
their candidates? it U the solemn truth of bisto
ry that, for the last twenty years, the Democracy
has lived, breathed, moved and had its being by
‘lavery agitation, by obtruding upon every Presi
dential canvass the slleged abolitionism of W big
nominees, and insinuating into the minds of the
Southern people the idea that abolitionism was so
vast a power in the free States that it had to be
propitiated by the Whigs in the selection of Presi
dential candidates. They charged that General
Harrison, s Virginian, was “ a member of an abo
lition society in Ohio;” that Henry Clay was dis
loyal to his native South ; that General Taylor,
the owner of three hundred slaves would, if elec
ted, be a mere tool of William H. Seward ; that
Millard Fillmore was an out and out abolitionist,
and that Wingfield Scott could not be trusted by
tbe land which gave him birth and for which h<-
had shed his blood upon the battle field. Such
men as these were to be set aside, on the charge of
abolitionism, for Martin Van Buren, who after
wards laid the corner-stone of the Black Republi
can party ; for James K. Polk, who signed the
Wilmot Proviso in the Oregon bill, and other
equally sound and indexible patriots. When,
therefore, they raise again tbe monotonous old
ont-crv of abolitionism, and apply it to tbe true
hearted Tennessee gentleman, Jobs Bbll, we look
upon it as simply beneath contempt. We wonder
that they have tbe face to flaunt that tattered cal
umny before a public whose confidence has been
too often imposed upon by similar fables to lend
it a moment’s credence. We are astonished that
they, whose interest in slave property is limited in
comparison with that of the Union men of the
South, should be always more sensitive upon the
subject of slavery than those who own slaves, and
that they should be eternally volunteering to de
fend their siaveholding neighbors from them
selves. We should think moreover that tbe posi
tion to which they have brought the country by
their perpetual agitatiou of the slavery subject
would auggest to them at this time tbe practice ot
penitence and humility, and the abstinence, for
one Presidential election at least, from the luxury
of their favorite scandal. It is their persistent at
tempts to evoke the goblin of Northern abolition
ism which have led to the present sectional dis
trust and hostility, and to their own party disrup
tion and demoralization. It is owing to a neces
sity imposed by the party use they have made of
the slavery subject that every Southern newspaper
and every Southern rostrum have been made tbe
media of an incendiary iuduence amidst heaps of
combustibles which it is only God's mercy has not
long ago set tbe land in a blaze. John Bell is no
more unsound on slavery than they are. They
haoe done mischief enough with such charges al
ready. If they have common sense, common jus
tice, or common discretion let them now desist. —
Baltimore American.
J. E. P. Cowabt.—This individual, well known
in this county, as a Protestant Methodist preacher,
who, a short time since, took negroes that did not
belong to him, from Pike county, and sold one of
them in Stewart county, Ga., has been arrested
and lodged in Lumpkin jail to await bis trial. By
some means it was ascertained here, that Cowart
was in Atlanta, under the assumed came of Press
wood, whereupon Mr. Dickinson of Pike county,
and ilr. Way of Stewart county, to whom be had
sold the uegro, started in pursuit of him. Ou
reaching Atlanta, they learned that Cowart had
gone off with some preacbeia to attend a camp
meeting in Calhoun county, whither they followed
him. On arriving at the ground, they found Cow
ar: occupying the pulpit preaching. As soon as
he concluded, he was apprehended and was soon
under way, for the scenes of bis late rascality.—
We are informed that after his arrest, he pretend
ed to have fits, hoping to pick a chance to escape,
but it was no go. Cowart has relatives in this
Bute of the highest respectability with whom we
deeply sympathize.— Eu/aula (Ala.) Express.
Hon. Ww. R. Kino on the Slave Trade in the
District or Columbia. —lt has been charged that
Mr. Bell noted for the bill abolishing the slave
trade in the District of Columbia. He voted
</<• in*t the bill, as the record shows ; but here is
what tbe late Vice President, Hon. Win. S. King,
said about the slave trade, in his speech ia the
Senate, on tbe 16th of July, 1850 :
“ With permission of the Senate, I will first ask
attention to the bill that relates to the abolition of
the elaTe trade in the district of Columbia. I
think my friend from Virginia (Mr. Hunter) who
spoke yesterday, misunderstood the provisions of
that bill, or he would not have made-the objec
tions which he urged upon the Senate. If, how
ever, sir, in the course of the examination, it is
found that the inconveniences suggested by the
honorable Senator do exist, I fee! confident that it
will be so amended as to steer clear of those in
conveniences. I take it for granted that the hon
orable Senator is not opposed to the suppression
of the traffic itself. I know, as well as I can know
anything that has occurred in which I was a par
ticipator, that it was the intention of the commit
tee 90 to arrange that bill as simply to break up
those slave pens that have been established by ne
gro peculators in the District of Columbia, against
the wishes ol a great majority of the people of the
District, and calculated to Rhock the feelings of
Houthern as well as Northern iren. Sir, I said, at
at an early period of this session, that I have never
seen the day when I would not have voted in fa
vor of breaking them up. I will do so now, and
I have too high a confidence in the humanity and
in tbe proper feeling of the Southern people to
believe for a moment that they will condemn me
for having done wbat my conscience, and what I
believe to be my duty, required of me.”
We publish the above lor the benefit of some
of our fire-eating friends in Mississippi, who have
been induced to believe that Mr. Bell voted for
this bill, and was therefore justly obnoxious to
Southern censure. It was King, the Democratic
Senator and Vice Prctldent , and 30t Mr. Bell.—
Vicksburg Whig.
Tax Prince or Wales Salutes the American
Flag. —A correspondent relates the following in
cident which occurred at Montreal during the re
ception of the Prince of Wales :
As tbe Prince drove along the route he passed
the Boston Fusiliers, who were drawn up in a line,
and who saluted him, while the GermaDia band
played “ God save the “ Queeu.” The Prince was
so mu:h gratified at tbe salute and so pleased with
the mu>ic, that after he had taken his seat in the
car, he sent his aid, requesting that the staff, ac
companied by the band, might be presented to
him Captain Stone of course complied with the
requeat, and as he entered the car, followed by the
standard-bearer with the stars and stripes, the
Prince with uncovered Lead and drawn sword, ea
lated the flag, while the Genoanians played “ Hail
Columbia.” After this, the Captain wa# presented
to the Prince and performed the somewhat unusual
but entirely proper ceremony of shaking bands
with his Koval Highness. Prior to the presenta
tion of bis stalL the Prince’s baud played God
Have the Queen, tbe Gcrmaoians Hail Columbia,
and tbe interview being ended, the favored ones
retired pleased with tbe Prince and their recep
tion, while he was highly gratified at their cordi
ality, and delighted with the skill of their band.
Endorsing.— Daniel Webster once said that
“the ain of America was the sin of suretyship."—
There ia written in mournful letters in the history
of every man the record of suffering by endorse
ment. It would make the most extraordinary chap
ter in human experience if the incidents of this
feature in business were written.
Deaith of Commodore Vlelntoeh.
We regret to learn that Commodore James M.
Mclntosh, of the U. 8. Navy, died at Pensacola at
36 minutes past six o’clock of Sunday morning, the
lid inst., age about 65 years.
Commodore Mclntosh was a native of Liberty
county, Georgia aud had been in the naval service
for more than a half century. He was at one time
in command of the Home Squadron, but resigned
some years since in consequence of ill health, and
was appointed commandant ol the navy yard at
Pensacola, which office he held at tbe time of his
death. He was a brave and efficient officer, and
an accomplished gentleman, and was much respect
ed In tbe service.
Abandons the Democratic Party.
The Whig contains a letfer from the Hon. E. M.
Ferger, a distinguished <it!zen of .Mississippi, in
whieh that gentleman declares himself for Bell and
Everett. It is well known that last December, Mr.
Verger publicly allied himself with the Democratic
party Believing from the unerring signs of tbe
time-, that Bell and Everett are the only national
candidates in the field, and the only ticket which
stands a ghost of a chance of success over the
Black Republicans, he gives his support in this
contest to Bell and Everett. We copy the con
cluding portion of Mr. Verger’s letter :
“ Without attempting to discuss the professed
principles of either party in the field, it seems to
me that the only question a patriot should now
ask, ought to be : How can we save the Union ?
How can we crush the Black Republicans? What
ever party we may heretofore have acted with, we
of the South are for the rights of the South, and it
becomes us as a great and intelligent people, to
put an end to the reign of party tyranny. It has
already nearly proved fatal to our country. Indi
vidual independence is now necessary to preserve
it. Without doubting the devoiion of any party
in Mississippi in (he interests of the South, it can
not, I think, he successfully denied that the De
mocracy have failed as a National party to secure
that which was the very germ of tbe dissolution.
These opinions are now held within my own
knowledge, by some of the most distinguished
supporters of Mr. Breckinri ige in Mississippi, who
have, furthermore, patriotically declared their
willingness to support Mr. Bell, should it indeed
appear that he is the strongest candidate in tbe
field. The recent elections, I think, have clearly
proved this to be a fact, and it is too much to hope
that the patriotism of these gentlemen will soon
show itself by an open declaration for Mr. Bell.
In this contest I am for crushing the Republican
party, rather than the elevation of any other, and
shall therefore cast my vote for Bell and Everett,
in my judgment, the strongest National candidates
in the field. Your obedient servant,
Edward M. Yerger.
Ordered to Leavr. —Tbe New Orleans Chris
tian Advocate learns through the Presiding Elder
Rev. W. B. Hines, and others, that the Rev. J. J.
Early, of the Mississippi Conference, has been no
tified to leave the country, in consequence of the
discovery of notes of his, ou slavery preparatory
to the publication of an abolition work. He is
suspected of tampering witb tbe negroes, and, it is
said, has so conducted himself as to be unfit for
the society and service, to which he had been as
signed. Early was run off from Deer Creek, Mis
sissippi. His youth, as we learn, lrom the Jackson
Mississippian, was spent as an apprentice to
Payne, a tailor of Dahlonega, Ga.
Look Before Voc Seeae.—A gentleman relates
to us an amusing incident which occurred a few days
since, in a part of tbe city which shall be nameless,
because we have promised to state nothing which
would disclose the names of the parties. A certain
lady had been much annoyed by the ringing of
her door bell, by several mischievous boys in the
vicinity, and determined to be made no more a fool
of by going to the door. In the course of the
forenoon, her pastor called to see this particular
member of his flock. Dressed in his sprucest
manner, he ascended the steps, and gently drew
the bell handle, when the lady shouted from the
entry: “ I see you, boy, and if I catch you, I’ll
wring your neck for you.” The affrighted gentle
man was taken completely aback, and immediately
rushed down the steps, and made tracks for some
place where a more hospitable reception awaited
him.— Selma Reporter.
The Summer.— Yesterday the lay of a
summer which will long be remembered as tbe
hottest and driest that has been known for many
long years. As an evidence of this, a thermome
ter about equally exposed in 1859 and 1860 rose,
during the former season, above 90 deg. only
seven times During the late season it was above
90 deg. thirty three times. Since the great gale of
the 11th and 12th of August, the drought has been
relieved by refreshing showers, and the heat
tempered, not only by the same cause, but by the
increasing length of the nights. Vegetation is
putting forth, as if under tbe influence of a second
spring, and nature seems to revive with approach
ing autumn—reversing tHfc traditional associations
of colder climates. — Mobile Tribune , Sept. 1.
The Japanese Hotel Bill. —The Japanese Re
ception Committee aud the Lelands (proprietors
of the Hotel) are at war about the famous hotel bill.
The Lelauds won’t give the public the items till the
Committee authorize them to do so, holding that
their bill is “ too big a thing” to be treated lightly.
They are very free to state, however, that it was
swelled to such enormous proportions because, du
ring the stay of the Japauese they were obliged
to keep opeu house, and furnish daily dinners to
150 Common Councilmen and their friends. They
say that while the Japanese remained in their house
they boarded a host of loafers and bangers-on up
on the Committee, who, with the extra servants
which they were obliged to employ, averaged 750
persons. How they came to consent to such a pal
pable swindle upon the tax payers they do not ex
plain.
Death of Mathew E. Williams. —We regret
to learn from a letter from Dawson, the death of
Mathew E. Williams, Esq., of Terrell county. He
died on Tuesday last, after an illness of thirty-six
hours. Mr. Williams was the Senator from Terrell
county in 1567 and 1858. llis death is greatly la
mented by the citizens of Terrell. —Sumter Re
/•iib/icaii.
Direct Importations. —ln passing thro’ llayne
and Meeting streets recently, our attention has
been directed to the immense number of bales, ca
ses and casks of merchandise of direct importa
tion. Our merchants really seem to be in earnest,
and, from conversations, we find that our importers
Lave been enabled to lay their stocks down at
prices much below what they have been in the hab
it of paying Northern houses for the same class of
goods. They can now better compete with other
markets, and we trust the interior trade will con
tinue to patronize their own people instead of en
riching Northern fanatics who really have no sym
pathy for us or our institutions.
The fall trade has opened very briskly, and mer
chants who have visited our city are much pleased
with the stocks of goods exhibited to them. If
the direct importers are to be encouraged, and
they certainly should be, our neighbors of Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee should help to grease the
wheels. We are sure none will regret a visit to
Charleston.— Charleston Mercury.
Warrenton, Milledukville k Macon Railroad.
—We had a few minutes conversation the other
day with Mr. Hazeihurst, Chief Engineer of this
road. We learn that the road has been located to
Sparta, that there are three hundred hands now at
work grading it East of the Ogeechee, and that
there will be in a lew days two hundred more
placed on it between the Ogeechee and Sparta—
making iu all five hundred employed on contracts.
A part of Mr. H.'s corps are now resurveying the
road from Macou to ibia city. The entire route
will be ready for letting by the first of January.—
Hence prospects we conceive, are bright for an ear
ly completion of the road. —MitledgeviiU Recorder.
Consistent.-—Some of the Democratic or secesion
journals hereabouts think that the fact of Mr. Bell’s
being n large slaveholder is no proof of his “sound
ness.” These people think evidently that it is of
little consequence what a man does, they only want
to know what he profeteet. Acts they have very
great contempt for. They have probably excellent
reasons for their peculiar standard of judging.—
Onlv think of the shocking condition they would
be in if they were judged by their acts, and not by
their yroftteiont / It is not suprising that they
want their opponents judged by the same standard.
The citizens of this country, however, will hard
ly gratify them. They have learned at last what
the profesasions of these peculiar politicians mean,
and they will hereafter judge them, not by these
professions, but by their acts. However terrible
the ordeal, they will have to submit to it. The
people have decreed it.— N. C. Bulletin.
Sons or Temperance. —There are it ia said,
about four thousind Divisions of Rons of Temper
ance in the United States, with nearly one hundred
and fifty thousand members.
From Texas. —A letter received at New Orleans
on September Ist, from Belton, Texas, hss the fol
lowing :
Gen. Ilonston has withdrawn, and the entire
press that supported him will at once launch out
for Bell and Everett. Not less than nineteen pa
pers will hoist their names in ten days. A num
ber of the people who have been for Breckinridge
have announced themselves for Bell. Their names
float high here on a fine flag. You will soon have
good news from Texas.
lowa Politics. — Chicago, Sept. I.—The friends
of Bel! and Everett held a convention at lowa City
yesterday. About half the counties in the state
were represented by 125 delegates. A full elec
toral ticket was nominated, but it was deemed in
expedient to make nominations for State offices.
Another Democrat Supporting Bell an*l
Everett.
The Opelousas Courier having charged that
Robert F. Patten, Esq., candidate for District At
torney of Vermillion, is a Douglas Democrat sup
portiag Bell and Everett, is thus answered by Mr-
Patten himself, extracts from which we give :
I am a Douglas Democrat in 1 am
also supporting, and voting for Bell and Everett.
I do so “Mr. Courier, R9an American freeman, pos
sessing the plenary right to judge and vote lor my
self. I see no possible chance for Douglas to car
rv Louisiana. I believe that I do see a chance
■ fair prospect—for Bell and Everett to carry
tbe .State. Therefore, in supporting Bell and Ev
erett, I consider that I am but helping to elect a
sound and national ticket against tbe Abolitionist,
Lincoln. As to Breckinridge, even if the party of
which he is the standard bearer was free from the
suspicion, palpable and strong, of Disunion, he has
no chance, either South or North, against Lincoln.
Rest assured, that “sink or swim ; live or die ; sur
vive or perish,” I am for Bell and Everett.
That Is the ring of tbe true metal. Like a hun
dred others whose names we could mention, Mr.
Patten has no idea of throwing away his vote, and
least of all, of helping tbe Disunionists.
CENTRE BHOTB.
In his Augusta speech, Judge Stephens said:—
It is only a few days ago that I read an eulogium
upon Franklin Pierce, pronounced by the Hon.
Robert Toombs, just four years ago, in which he
said that the Chief Magistrate was leaving his coun
try without a blot upon its escutcheon and without
a speck upon its political horizon. This was just
four years ago this Summer. Into whose hands
then did this Government, which Mr. Toombs so
highly eulogised, go? Into the hands of James
Buchanan and Howell Cobb; aud there it has been
ever since. If, as Mr. Toombs said, there was not
a speck upon the political horizon at that time,
and trouble has since arisen, it has been brought
about by his confederates. * * * *
Mr. Toombs said, in bis speech on Saturday
night last, that Mr. Bell, while in Congress, hail
continually voted with the North, whenever there
was a sectional division on any question before
the House. Now, lam not here as the defender,
nor as the advocate of Mr. Bell, but in justice to
him, I must ask leave to correct this statement.
Mr. Bell voted agaiust the Wilmot proviso—
that was not voting against the South. Mr. Cobb
voted for it; Mr. Yancey voted for it. Bell voted
for the compromise bill of 1850. So did Toombs.
Give them a few more broadsides, Judge.
Nlr. Breckinridge on the Stump.
It is with sincere regret, says the Charleston
Mercury, we see that Mr. Breckinridge has con
sented to imitate Mr. Douglas in delivering speech*
es, with a view to the Presidential election. We
had hoped that now, aud forever after, Mr. Doug
las would have stood alone in the “ bad eminence”
of a Presidential stump speaker. Mr. Breckin.
ridge can do neither himself nor his party any
good, by pursuing a course so inconsistent with
the dignity of the high office at which he aims.—
William Lowndes said, “That the Presidential of
fice should neither be sought for nor declined.”—
That was the sentiment of a man worthy to fill
such an office, with its heavy responsibilities—its
grave and important duties. The Idea of a candi
date scouring the country to obtain it, by electio
neering harangues and personal appeals to win pop
ular favor, can excite nothing but the most unmiti
gated disgust and contempt. We do not expect
to publish anything which falls from Mr. Breckin
ridge, spoken as a candidate for the Presidency.
General Millson on Neutral Ground.— The
Norfolk Herald says the rumor is current (and we
presume it is not without some fouudatiou in
truth.) that the representative in Congress from
this District, the Hon. Jobu. Miiisvn, wilt nat .a.
vocate the claims of either of the Presidential
candidates now before the people, as he may
eventually be called upon, in his official capacity,
to vote for Breckinridge, Douglas or Bell.
Vote of Selma. —Last week, says the Marion
American, a bet of SSOO being made that there
was not fifty Douglas votes iu Selma, a thorough
canvass of the city was made, and the following
figures obtained:
Bell 228
Douglas 143
Breckinridge 77
The above figures are not “ straws” but facts,
and show how the Breck-Yaucey ticket is sweeping
the State and “overwhelming every thing.”
Col. Vaneev t-otting his Temper.
The friends of Breckinridge and Douglas at th e
South, says the Baltimore American, are conduct
ing the canvass with a feeling of personal vindic
tiveness that has already on several occasions re
sulted in personal violence. Mr. Yancey, especial
ly, is losing his temper to an extent not to have
been expected fVom one of bis pleasing manners.
In a recent speech at Columbus, Mississippi, he de
nounced the venerable James L. Seward, of Geor
gia, one of the delegates from that State to the
Charleston Convention, who refused to secede, “as
an infamous calumniator.”
Drpariiireof Den. Walkcr’N Friends.
The sclir. John R. Taylor, Captain Lombard,
sailed from this port on the 31st ult. for Ruatan
Island, with merchandize reported elsewhere.—
She had on board, also, a number of passengers,
friends of Walker, for Truxilio, Honduras, who go
out in the most peaceable manner, most of them
ou special invitation, and with the expectation of
being engaged in the cival department of his new
government. We may add, even, that some of
them will probably, upon their arrival, be invited to
port folios iu the new cabinet. And in this con
nection we are assured that it is the intention of
Walker, so soon as he shall have put himself fully
en rapport with the supporters of the liberal party
of Honduras, to establish a government which will
have an eye siugle to the peace and prosperity of
the country.
Os course Walker’s ultimate destination is Nica
ragua, but the cause of the liberal party of Hon
duras, and, indeed, all the States of Central Ameri
ca, is one and the same.— Xew Orleans Picayune.
Connecticut Democratic Convention.
Hartford, Aug. 29.—The Democratic State Con
vention, which met here to-day, nominated a clean
Douglas clectorial ticket. The Baltimore platform
was endorsed, and resolutions instructing the elec
tors to vote for some other candidate than Mr.
Douglas, if necessary to defeat Lincoln, were re
rejected.
The New York correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier says :
Those who may enter into inquiry of the value
of the Union, must overlook entirely the difficul
ties to which we are exposed from partisan leaders
—of all sides—and more particularly, just now, in
New York, of the two Democratic factions. Ido
not believe that there is enough of patriotism and
honesty among the party leaders in New York to
effect the long called for and much desired fusion
of the conservative masses. I thought on the 20tb
July that ail was right; now all is wrong.
It Is certain that Lincoln will be elected Presi
dent, and it is made certain by New York Demo
cratic leaders, aided by the Federal officers on
one side, and the Lincoln predictions of the
Douglasites on the other.
Alarmino RuMoas. —We understand, from a
leading New York merchant, engaged in the south
ern trade, that a customer of his, just as he was
buying a bill of goods yesterday, received a letter
from his wife iu Florida, where he resided, stating
that the negroes had become insubordinate, and
that serious anticipations of an outbreak were en
tertained, that a Committee of Vigilance had been
formed and other effective measures adopted. The
news so startled the gentleman that he at once
dropped business, neglected his fail purchases, and
started with the first conveyance forborne.— X. Y.
Day Book.
Combs Still Running. —A cotemporary says
the latest advices from Kentucky have run Gen.
Combs’ majority to twenty-six thousand four hund
red and ninety seven, and more to coine yet!—
Will tbe General never stop running? “ Enough
of a thing is enough.’
“ Papa, can’t I go to the zoologorieal rooms to
see the camomile fight the rv-no-sir-ee-iioss ?”
“ Sartin, m v son, but don’t get your trousers
torn. Strange, my dear, what a taste that boy
has got for uat’ral hist’ry. No longer than yester
day he had eight tom-cats hanging by their tails
to the clothes line.”
MACON, GEORGIA :
Wednesday, September 12, 1860.
u a HHHBMMaBce |gaM " ni1 ’ ■■ ‘ .LE
Constitutional Union Ticket.
FOB PRESIDENT,
JOHN BELL,
OF TENNESSEE.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
E D W AR D J!VE R E T TANARUS,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
PLATFORM:
The Constitution of the Country, the
Fnlou of the State* and tbe Enforcement
of the Lauf.”
Electoral Ticket.
FOR STATE AT LARGE.
Wm. Law, of Chatham. ) Electors
B. H. Hill, of Troup. j sectors.
Hines Holt, of Muscogee j AUeruateß .
Garnett Andrews, of Wilkes, j
FIRST DISTRICT.
Samuel B. Spencer, of Thomas, Elector.
Edward B. Way, of Liberty, Ist. Alternate.
Dr. T. A. Parsons, of Johnson, 2nd. Alternate.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Marcellus Douglas, of Randolph, Elector.
W. H. Robinson, of Macon, Ist. Alternate.
P. J. Strozier, of Dougherty, 2nd. Alternate.
THIRD DISTRICT.
L. T. Doyal, of Spalding, Elector.
John T. Stephens, of Monroe, Ist. Alternate.
Charles Goode, ol Houston, 2nd. Alternate.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. F. Wright, of Coweta, Elector.
W. C. Mabry, oflleard, Ist. Alternate.
John M. Edge, of Campbell, 2nd Alternate.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Josiah R. Parrot, of Cass, Elector.
Tlios. G. McFarland, of Walker, Ist. Alternate.
Rich’d. W. Jones, of Whitfield, 2ud. Alternate.
SIXTn DISTRICT.
H. P. Bell, of Forsyth, Elector.
McDaniel, of Walton, Ist. Alternate.
S. J. Winn, of Gwinnett, 2nd. Alternate.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Dr. I. E. Dupree, of Twiggs, Elector.
B. T. Harris, of Hancock, Ist. Alternate.
M. W. Lewis, of Greene, 2nd. Alternate.
EIGHT DISTRICT.
LaFayette Lamar, of Lincoln, Elector.
John K. Jackson, of Richmond, Ist. Alternate.
Daniel E. Roberts, of Scriven, 2nd. Alternate.
Col. 1.. T. Doyal’* Appointments.
Jackson, Butts county, September 12
Zebulon Pike county, “ 17
Thoma9ton, Upson county,. 18
Kuoxville, Crawford county,..“ 19
Butler, Taylor county, “ 20
Talbotton, Talbot county,....“ 21
Hamilton, Harris county “ 22
Alternate Electors are requested to attend these
appointments.
All the papers, circulating in these counties, will
please copy these appointments.
Let every Bell and Everett man see to it that
the people attend and bear the speeches.
Hon. Thomas Hardeman, Col. P. W. Alexander
and Hon. R. P. Trippe will be present on 9ome, or
all, of the occasions referred to, and also address
the people.
SAVANNAH COTTON MARKET.
The Republican of yesterday, gives the following
statement of their market.
The sales to-day were 267 bales, a9 follows: 19
at 10, 35 at 10}, 75 at 10 5 8, 112 at 10$, and 26
ai logo. The market exhibits a declining tendency,
as will be seen by the tallowing quotations, upon
which the sales were based, closing dull.
QUOTATIONS:
Middlings 10 ©lo}
Strict Middlings 10}©10 5-8
Good Middlings ©los
A decline of fully }©} on Middling, on
Strict Middling, aud }©}c. on Good-Middling, lrom
the quotations given iu our circular of the 7 th.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
We refer our readers to our advertising columns.
It will be seen that the next Georgia Medical Col
lege will open under a very able Faculty. A valu
able Mississippi Cotton Plantation is offered for
sale. Our merchants, of every kind, it will be
seen, are opening for the fall and winter campaign.
Try them.
THE 8188 CAMP MEETING
Commenced its exercises on Monday night last,
and will close on Saturday morning.
RELIGIOUS
There seems to be an unusual degree of interest
manifested at this time, in every part of our own
and in many other sections of the country. We
trust it will have a tendency to allay the excess
and acerbity of political feeling.
POLITICS.
Hon. Alfred Iverson addressed a crowded audi
ence at Concert Hall, in this city, on last Wednes
day night. The effort, we learn, was highly ap
plauded by his friends.
On Saturday night there was a discussion at the
same place between Cols. Gibson and Bass—Breck
inridge and Douglas Electors for this District. It
is the impression of those who were present at the
discussion, that our townsman, in temper and ar
gument, acquitted himself haudsomely. We re
gret that Col. Gibson should deem it necessary to
abuse such pure and eminent statesmen and patri
ots as Bell and Everett. It bespeaks a desperate
cause.
It was expected that non. W. H. Stiles would
apeak last night. All this speaking amounts to
nothing, except to keep up a senseless and useless
excitement.
NEW BOOKS.
We are indebted to Mr. J. W. Burke for a cam
paign life of John Bell, “ Union Edition,” embra
cing also “ the life and public services of Hon. Ed
ward Everett,” and a copy of the platform adopted
at the Bell and Everett Convention in Baltimore.
The whole makes a pamphlet of 118 pages, and
may be found at the Methodist Depository.
Mr. Burke ha3 also placed in our hands a very
valuable little work, entitled the Pocket Interest
Book, giving the rates of interest in all the States.
HOUSfON COUNTY.
It has been our good fortune to attend two very
interesting and profitable Camp-meetings, in this
county, within the past few weeks. The one near
Fort. Valley closed on yesterday morning. At
both there were large and valuable accessions to
the church. Wc were much pleased with the se
rious and orderly deportment of the large audito
ries present, and most favorably and gratefully im
pressed by the hospitality and courtesy of the in
telligent and worthy citizens of old Houston.
Death of A. A. Stitt.—We are pained to
chronicle, says the Nashville Gazette , the death ot
our fellow-citizen, A. A. Stitt, Esqr. He died in
Philadelphia yesterday morning, after a lingering
disease. For several years past, Mr. Stitt has been
acting as Superintendent of the Southern Metho
dist Publishing Concern, which he has filled with
credit to himself and profit to those under whom
he was employed. His long experience in the
“ Art Preservative of Arts” made him eminently
fitted for the position, and his place will not be
easily filled.
The Unoin Swell.—The Union current, says the
Memphis Bulletin , like the swollen ifiountain tor
reut, is bearing down all opposition. An intelligent
farmer who returned from the North last week, an
nounces his purpose to vote for Mr. Bell, as he
believes him to be the only candidate who has any
show of beatiDg Lincoln. Two other prominent
democrats of this city, now in the North, write
home, we are informed, to the same effect.
l^gT 1 The Supreme Court has refused anew trial
to W. A. Choice,
HON. LINTON STEPHENS.
The Augusta Constitutionalist contains a full re
port of the able speech of this gentleman in that
city. It pours hot shot into the Breckinridge
camp, and lets off a few damaging tigers upon
Cohb and Toombs. It ia a capital campaign docu
ment. The democratic exposures of democratic
corruptions, mal administration of the Govern- i
ment, and the selfish plots and of
aspiring demagogues, will open the eyes of the
honest people to the fearful condition of the coun
try, and the importance of rising in their majesty
and making one great effort to save the govern
ment bv placing its administration in the hands of
experienced, wise and honest statesmen. We
give a few extracts from the speech of Mr. Ste
phens, and hope his democratic brethren will profit
by them. He says :
“ Mr. Cobb said, in a speech at Atlanta, that
Judge Douglas had charged all Lecorupton Demo
crats with fraud. 1 was pained to hear it—pained
on Mr. Cobb’s own account. Judge Douglas nev
er made such a charge. I know what lam about,
if lam not Secrutary of the Treasury. Mr. Cobb
made this statement in Atlanta. He said ; “ Mr.
Douglas meant you and me, and all this crowd.”—
Sow, I know what Mr. Douglas said. He did say
somebody was guilty of fraud ; but he said who
it was—he didn’t leave that in any doubt. He didn’t
leavo Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Cobb, or Mr. Walker iu
doubt as to who he meant. But Mr. Cobb said he
applied it to all of you ; and said he : “ When
you go to deposite your vote for Stephen A. Doug
las, pull your bats down over your eyes, so that
the brand of fraud may not be seen.” No ; the
brand was put upon the Administration and the
Cabinet —and you know, freemen of Richmond
county, how well they deserved it. When Mr.
Cobb made that remark, he was talking to his au
dience on the principle of “ how we apples do
swim.” [Laughter.]
Before Mr. Walker went to Kansas, Mr. Doug
las made a speech at Springfield, on this subject.
I was engaged in a canvass in Georgia at that
time, and when I read that speeeh I felt cheered
by it—l felt encouraged to go on in the work before
me, but Mr. Buchanan was hostile to Mr. Donglas
then, as he is now ; Mr. Cobb was hostile to him
then, as he is now ; one reason for which may be
the pre-eminence, the superior statesmanship of
Mr. Douglas.
Mr. Toombs said here that the Devil was the
first squatter sovereign. Mr. Sumner said that
too —said it before Toombs did. That the Devil
aspired to drag the Godhead from His throne, and
was defeated and punished. It may be that some
one now aspires to drag Mr. Douglas down.
• Id******
Mr. Douglas, it is said, voted for the Wilmot
proviso. Well, what if he did ? That’s true. I
don’t deny that. I intend to be fair and candid.
I don’t intend to misrepresent the truth for friend
nor foe, and I say Douglas did vote for the Wil
mot proviso ; but he voted for it under instruc
tions. I would rather, myself, that he hadn’t vo
ted for it, even with the instructions ; but there is
a large class of people who believe in instructions;
and it certainly doesn’t lie in the mouth of a De
mocrat to abuse him for carrying out his instruc
tions. You remember that he was in the Senate
and not in the House of Representatives, at that
time. I say I would rather that he had not done
it ; but I want to see how some other people
stand on this point. How did the Secretary of the
Treasury stand ? He was a southern man, and
we had a right to expect better things of him.—
Douglas was a northern man, and voted under in
structions ; Mr. Cobb was a southern man, and
voted w ithout instructions ! And he was not con
tent with voting for it one time, but two years
afterwards he goes back to Congress, and votes
for it over again. [Laughter and applause.] I
make these statements —knowing what I say—l
speak by the record, and I only say what I know.
Deny them if you can.
Mr. Cobb gave bis reasons, it is true, for h ; s
votes. I will be as fair as Toombs ; he gave Mr.
Douglas’ reasons ; I’ll give Mr. Cobb’s. Mr. Cobb
said he voted for the Wilmot proviso because it
was North of the Missouri compromise line, and
slavery couldn’t go abo v e that line. Well, the
bill containing this proviso failed in 1845 —but I
assure you it didn’t fail by Mr. Cobb’s vote. —
[Laughter.] In 1847 the bill came up again—they
put in the Wilmot proviso again. One of our neigh
bors across the river, Judge Burt, of South Caro
lina, wanted to insert a clause explaining that the
reason why southern men voted for the bill, Was
because of its application to territory North of
86-30—but Mr. Cobb’s allies refused to put in the
clause, and it was rejected. But Mr. Cobb still
voted for it. By the way, I have heard a report
—I don’t know whether it is correct or not —that
Cobb advised Toombs to quit this canvass. The
reason may be—l don’t say that it is, or that the
report is true —the reason may be that while
Toombs is fighting Douglas, his foe, he tails to take
care of Cobb, his friend and allv. I don’t know
that this is so ; but I think if I was iu Cobb’s
place, I would advise Toombs to withdraw.
Rut there’s somebody else in the same box. I
like to rise—l like to go upward—l have mention
ed Cobb—now I’ll take up the great arch precipi
tator himself. W. L. Yancey is in the same box.
He voted for the Wilmot proviso (s>o. But I will
be just. I will pay here that he didn’t vote for it
quite as bad as Cobb did ; he only voted for it
once. The reason may be that he wasn’t there the
second time. I don’t know what he would have
done if he had been there.
I heard Mr. Cobb, iu his speech at Atlanta, make
a great point against Douglas. Douglas, he said,
had intervened against the South when the North
wanted it. lie said, Douglas had voted for the
North ; but he never intervened against the
North. He said, too, that Douglas voted for the
Toombs bill, which contained intervention legisla
tion.
These, fellow-citizens, arc some of the causes
for which you are asked to withhold your votes
from Douglas, and aid in disrupting the Union ; and
these causes, and these charges, I stamp under
m_v feet as groundless and useless. [Applause.]
Mr. Cobb ought to have had a little charity. He
onght to have told you that Douglas never voted
for the Wilmot Proviso without instructions. Mr.
Cobb did ! There is a difference between Doug
las and Toombs —and this isthe difference between
Douglas and Cobb—one voted for the Wilmot Pro
viso under instructions —the other voted for it
without iustructions.
Isn’t the Wilmot Proviso, intervention ? Isn’t
it a law of Congress intervening against us in the
Territories ? If that isn’t intervention with a ven
geance, I don’t know what intervention is. But
really, I think they ought to cease abusing Doug
las on this point. “People just out from among the
pots shouldn’t say black to the kettle 1 [Laugh
ter and applause.] It is a very excellent tiling for
a drunken mao to join a temperance society and
become sober, but it wouldn’t look well in him, af
ter having lain intoxicated in ditches, to turn
around and abuse ever) body who had lain there
with him. [Laughter.] If Mr. Cobh is ashamed
of having voted for the Wilmot Proviso, it is right
for him to say so, and he should wash his hands of
the offence ; but I can’t applaud him for blaming
everybody who voted for it with him, and who
didn’t vote lor it half as bad as he did.” [Ap
plause.]
HON H W- HILLIARD.
This distinguished gentleman was a delegate to
the Baltimore NatiouaL Democratic Convention.
He was a Breckinridge man until his late visit to
the North. His observations there led him to be
lieve that there is no chance for Mr. B. In a pa
triotic letter addressed to Mr. Fillmore, ho says:
“It is clear that the conservative men of the
country nre coming to the rescue, and sectionalism
will be rebuked, and the movement in behalf of
the Uniou will now acquire a resistless momentum.
We both think, and every day’s events must
strengthen this opinion, that the only hope of de
feating Mr. Lincoln is to conquer our prejudice, to
disregard party shackles, and to rally everywhere
in support of those eminent and conservative
statesmen w hose claim upon our confidence does
not res't uppn their possession of a creed, but upon
the surer and better basis of well defiued charac
ter, of matured wisdom, aud of great public ser
vices—John Bell and Edward Everett.
We hope to see thousands following the patri
otic example of Mr. Hilliard. Let us for once dis
card party and rally to the country.
Rev. A. A. Llpscombe. D. D.
This eminent gentleman, says the Auburn Sketch
Book , has accepted the Chancellorship of the Uni
versity of Georgia. In this case, what is Alabama’s
loss, is Georgia's gain. We can’t help being sorry
that he is going. We thought to have kept him in
our State. It is unexpected. We have had time
to fully realize it. We positively wish the Dr. had
not gone. The Georgians may well be proud of
their Chancellor. lie will adorn the position, and
add largely to the reputation of the Institution.—
Our blessings go with him, though wjth a heavy
heart.
AN HONEST CONFESSION.
We have heard it predicted that the Telegraph
would shorfly run up the Bell and Everett colors.
An article in that paper of yesterday in regard to
the Union platform, would seem to favor that
idea. We quote the concluding portion of that
article. The editor says :
But whether Lincoln, Breckinridge, Douglas oi
Bell be elected, this Platform is sure to be victo
rious, and sanctioned under oath. The Bell and
Everett Plattorm will never be defeated so lon£
as the Union endures ; for political heresy wil 1
never run so wild as not to claim the endorsement
and sanction of this Platform. It is only when
you come to an enquiry into the precise meaning
of the Platform, that any doubts, divisions oi
conflicts of opinion arise, and political parties
originate. The Bell and Everett men have there
fore gone behind all such doubts and divisions
and have marked the progress of the 19th century,
by a retrograde flight back to September 1787,
which was, if we remember, the time of the forma
tion of the Federal Constitution. They are a po
litical party antedating the origin and source o!
all political parties in this Confederacy. And a.-
their platform, admitting sworn declarations, would
equally embrace all parties, so their candidates have
been wisely chosen to represent as well as could
be done by any two men, the widest contrariety
of opinion. The whole is as queer an experiment
in politics as the opposition have ever yet attemp
ted.
We thank our neighbor for this tribute to the
sagacity of our party. He may not have intend
ed it as such,but nevertheless we deem it the highest
compliment he could have bestowed upon the wis
dom and patiiotism of those who composed the
National Union Convention. We think it is high
time to go back to first principles—clearing away,
as we proceed, the rubbish of party platforms
w hich has well-nigh entombed both the Constitu
tion and the country. We want no better basis to
stand upon than the Constitution. Had all par
ties adhered to it iustead of mounting the decep
tive and wretched contrivances of demagogues
and charlatans, we never should have heard of
Abe Lincoln, except perhaps, as a rail-splitter or
county court lawyer. Whether he be elected or
Mr. Breckinridge, or Mr. Bell, the National Union
Party will demand that they shall not only take
the oath to support the Constitution—which im
plies an enforcement of the laws—and indeed a
faithful discharge of all other official duties—but
that they shall keep it inviolate. We agree with
our neighbor that our platform and candidates are
admirably suited to the crisis, and will probably
do more, if elected, to harmonize all contrariety of
opinion, and pacify all antagonism of feeling than
any movement that has been originated since the
adoption of the Federal Constitution.
Injustice to Mr. Iverson.
In our paper of yesterday morning there was in
justice done to Mr. Iverson, which we take the
earliest opportunity to correct. We stated, iu a
short paragraph, that Mr. Iverson voted in favor
of the motion of Mr. Brown, of Miss., to strike out
all of the fifth resolution of Mr. Davis’ series and
insert the following :
“ Besolved, That experience having already
shown that the Contitution and the common law,
imaided by statutory provision, do not afford ade
quate and sufficient protection to slave property,
some of the Territories having failed, others hav
ing refused, to pass such enactments, it has be
come the duty of Congress to interpose and pass
vuch lairs as will afford to slave property , in the
Territories, that protection which is given to other
kinds of property.”
Mr. Iverson voted against the above resolution,
and so did Mr. Toombs, and all the Senators who
voted at all, except Messrs. Brown of Miss., John
son of Arkansas, and Mallory of Florida.
Are we asking too much of the Breckinridge
and Bell press of the State, to publish the above,
ia justice to Mr. Iverson. We accidentally mis
repsented his posiiion, and we promptly make this
statement, and request the press of the State, of
all parties, to aid us in arresting any injurious
opinion against Mr. Iverson which may result from
our mistake.— Constitutionalist.
Position or Gen. Bonham. —The Laurensville
Herald contains an account of a serenade in that
place. Several gentlemen were called out, among
them Gen. Bonham. The Herald says :
Our immediate Representative, Gen. M. L. Bon
ham, was then called out, and responded in bis
usual out spoken, happy manner. He presented the
four candidates for the Presidency to view, with
their respective creeds and chances of success. —
The fight lay between Lincoln and Breckinridge—
the other two were but floating straws — and of
these, Lincoln, he thought, would succeed. WbeD
he had, then the policy of the South was a South
ern Confederacy ; if that was impossible, a confed
eration of the cotton States ; and if that failed,
and the worst come to the worst, sejmrate State
action. He said it was out of place to disepsx the
latter until there was necessity for it; he did not
think there would be, for he had much confidence
in the united action of the Southern States.”
Patriotic Advice.
Chief Justice John Belton O’Neal, of South Car
olina, in a recent letter on the present aspects of
affairs, says :
“ Calmly and firmly you must determine that
your country shall live. Place the best and purest
uinn within your reach at the head of your govern
ment. Purge your Congress. Every corrupt, licen
tious, rowdy, gambling, drinking man should be
sent home. Then you may look for a reign of
honesty and virtue. Until that be done, bow can
you expect the blessing of God ? Are drunken,
corrupt legislators to minister at the alter of our
country? If so, what results are you to expect?
‘ Scenes,’ such a9 you have witnessed in the past
year. I have shuddered at reading at ribaldry and
abuse in the House of Representatives. It would
disgrace a Southern grog-shop. And yet. Repre
sentatives of a tree People of the United States
have unblushiugiy mingled in it!
“ 0, my eouutry, fearful must be thy fate if these
things are to continue !
“ But, as these lowering clouds, after blessing
the earth with the rain w hich it so much needs,
will dissolve, and the sun will arise to give heat and
strenght to the vegetable and animal kingdom, so
let us hope it will vanish all our political clouds,
that the sun of righteousness, peace and safety will
arise upon our distracted country.”
Liberty, Mo., August 15, 1860.
The recent election in our State has confirmed
me fully, iu the opinion that Bell and Everett will
obtain its electorial vote. Judge Orr, the Union
candidate for Governor, has polled over 55,000
votes, and there will not be much over if any, 120,-
000 votes cast in tbe State for President. This will
leave 65,000 vote 9 to be divided between Lincoln,
Douglas and Breckinridge, on the supposition that
Bell and Everett will get no greater vote than Orr;
which, however, Ido not think. I believe they
will get sto 10,000 more. My opinion is that
Lincoln will obtain at least 10,000 votes; Douglas
about 25,000, and Breckinridge 30,000 out of the
65,000, supposing that to be the number left. We
shall gain ou the vote for Judge Orr, and there
need be no doubt about Missouri. It is certain for
Bell and Everett.
Preparing to Exhibit.— Several of our enter’
taining artisans and mechanics, says the Charleston
Courier, are preparing contributions for the great
Fair at Macon, Georgia, to be opened on the 3d of
December, for three weeks. As commissioners
and representatives of all the Southern States, and
of some European countries, are expected to be
present, in addition to a large representation of
Georgia, we trust our city will have a full and fair
showing in all important departments.
The Struggle is Between Bell and Lincoln.—
We learn from the San Antonio (Texas) Alamo
Express, that Col. Wilcox, who, it will be recol
lected, says the N. O. Bulletin , some months ago
passed through this city on his way to the North
to advance the cause of Gen. Houston to the Presi
dency, and who addressed our citizens at Odd
Fellows’ Hall, has returned from his tour, and that
he reports the Presidential struggle to be between
Bell and Lincoln. Col. Wilcox is a distinguished
Democrat, and formerly a member of Congress
from Mississippi. He would not therefore be likely
to represent the cause of Bell in a light not war
ranted by the facts. He had good opportunities
for knowing, and he gives it his decided opinion
that the struggle is between Bell and Lincoln /
Let patriots, North and South, choose between
them. if > WM JBk
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
Athens, Ga., Aug. 31st, 1860.
Editors Journal and Messenger ; Agreeable to
a call for a meeting of the Bell and Everett men
of Clarke countv, for the purpose of organizing a
Bell and Everett Club, a large and enthusiastic au
dience assembled at the Town Hall in this p ] ace
on last Saturday evening at 8 o’clock. The meet
ing was composed of the most intelligent and
staunch men of the town. A brass band was i n
attendance, and discoursed some beautiful munc
—Hail Columbia, Yankee Doodle, Ac. The meet
ing was called to order by John H. Christy, chair
man, pro. tem. A committee was then appointed
by the chair to report permanent officers, a Coe
stitution, By-Laws, & c . Hon. John Billups was
appointed chairman by the committee—also five
Vice-Preaidenta by the same. Upon taking the
chair Col. Billups made a short but very appropri
ate speech. Dr. Richard D. Moore being called
for, appeared upon the stand, and was greeted
with the most enthusiastic and long continued an
plause. The Dr. then went into a discussion
the past politics of the country from 1832 down
to the present time.
He did not descend to personal abuse of any in
dividual, but held up to the gaze of the public, de
mocracy in all its corruptions, both past and pres
ent. Dr. Moore has eschewed politics altogether
for many years past. He was born and relred a
whig, and when that once glorious old party ceas
ed to exist he retired from politics. It is certain
ly a good omen for the success of our party,
when men who have retired for years to'the shades
of private life, come forth from their retirement,
and buckle on the war harness, to battle in the
glorious cause of the Constitution, the Union and
the enforcement of the Laws. Other speeches
were also made by Thomas W. Walker, E. P.
Lumpkin, and Peyton Moore. The very best or
der was preserved during the meeting. At the
conclusion, the meeting adjournvd with three
loud and hearty cheers for Bell and Everett. The
Bell-ringers of old Clarke are doing their duty
manfully ; they see that if they will only perse
vere until November next, that the day of deliver
ance is at hand. Only a short time ago and we
could hear nothing of politics, but suddenly—
“ A change has come o’er the spirit of our dreams.”
The people are everywhere rising in the majesty
of their might, and declaring in tones that rever
berate from hill to valley, that Northern abolition,
ism and aggression shall be checked, and that
Southern fanaticism and disunion shall meet a de
served rebuke.
Kentucky (the home of the ever glorious “ Har
ry of the West”) has recently declared that disun
ion shall not find a foothold upon her soil, •and
that she will take no part iu “ precipitating the
cotton States into a revolution.” Other States
have also signally repudiated the “ Yoqng Ken
tucky gentleman.” All that is necessary for the
Bell-ringers to do ia to labor unceasingly from
now until November. And as sure as they do it,
John Bell and Edward Everett, statesmen and pa*
triots as they are, will march in triumph to the
White-House. SLIGO.
Hamburg, Ark., Aug. 2Sth, 1860.
Messrs. Editors :—As you have already learned
our State elections resulted disastrously for the
Breckinridge Democracy. R. H. Johnson regular
nominee for Governor, was overwhelmingly de
feated by the independent candidate, H. M. Rector,
who was supported by the opposition E. W.
Gantt, supported by the Bell and Everett men, was
elected to Congress from this district, and Cypert,
candidate of the Union party in Ist district, where
the Democracy claims a majority of 10,U00, came
very near beating Hindman, the head of the seces
sionists in this State. In the elections to the Leg
slature and county officers, we have had glorious
triumphs in many places, where heretofore the
Democracy held undisputed sway. The True Dem
ocrat newspaper of Little Rock, in its issue of the
18th inst., thus acknowledges the corn : “ There
can be no doubt of the thorough organization of
the Union party all over the State, and that to it,
and it alone, belong the laurels of victory.”—
Although the charge, that there is a “ K now Noth
ing” party in this State,Jis entirely false and disin
genuous, yet I am happy to say, that the Union
party is now thoroughly and effectively organized.
We Lave a Union Club in our town, presided over
by Armand LefiLs, Esq., formerly, a citizen of ata
con. It meets regularly, and has its Committees
in every township in the county. A grand rally
and barbecue is to be held at New London, on
Saturday next, and some of the best speakers in
the State are expected to attend. In fact, we are
determined to march Democratic Arkansas, into
the Union ranks. Clear the way for the great
Cotton State of the West!
The emigration to this State for the last five or
six years has been immense, and of such a charac
tOF aa t/ a ereat change in its politics.—
Men of the middle class owniug ft Urn fltc tv bnvn
ty and thirty slaves have come in and are coming
in daily. This is the class most conservative in its
politics, and which ia truest to the Uniou, and in
which is to be found the largest vote for Bell and
Everett.
The Douglasites are leaving no stone unturned.
They are flooding the country with documents, and
holding meetings everywhere. Ihe address of
their national executive committee is winning ma*
ny Democrats to the support of the “ little giant.”
In fact, it is a good document, and shows up the
supporters of Breckinridge in a light not calculated
to do the “ young man of Kentucky” much good.
The Union men of this State are in the very best
spirits, and send greeting aud words of hearty en
couragementTto the friends of Bell and Everett all
over the Union. Be assured that we will do our
whole duty.
The crops in this county are magnificent, and so
far as I have been able to learn, all Eastern Ark
ansas is teeming with the finest crops of corn and
cotton ever made in the State. The Western por
tion of the State has suffered for rain. We are
now haviug floods of rain, which seem to be gene
ral, and will doubtless injure the cotton. A rise
in the Ouachita and Arkansas rivers is anticipated,
which may do serious damage.
Many persons are constantly in our town from
the Eastern States, looking out homes in the West.
I have seen eight or ten from Georgia, here, at one
time, and many from Mississippi. Arkansas will
aoon be thickly settled and will be the heaviest
producing State in the cotton regions.
G. W. N.
Mr. Douglas had a very cordial and enthusiastic
receptiou at Baltimore on Wednesday. He was
met at the railroad depot by a committee of one
hundred citizens and a large assemblage of people,
who greeted him with cheering and other demon
strations of approval. In the eveuing he was ser
enaded at the Gilmore House, and addres.-ed one
of the largest gatherings of the people that the
present canvass has brought into Monument Square.
This speech is described by tbe American as bold,
earnest, and argumentative, and was responded to
throughout with repeated outbursts of applause.—
A portion of it was devoted to the speech of Mr.
Breckinridge, delivered at Lexington, Kentucky, on
Wednesday previous.
The Vicksburg Whig states that Governor
Brown, of Mississippi, having been called out after
Gen. Patrick Henry had spoken at Hazlehurst,
last week, declared that he regarded Mr. Bell as a
pure and experienced statesman, and perfectly
reliable—expressing his readiness to vote for him,
should it become necessary to do to aefeat Mr.
Lincoln.
The National Intelligencer. —Wm. W. Seaton
Esq,, has associated with him in the editorial de
partment of this journal Mr. James C. Welling, a
gentleman who, lor the last ten years, has been
connected with it in different departments.